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A PHILOSOPHER'S JOB is to show you what you would otherwise miss because it is right in front of your nose, too close to focus on. In one of Mel Brooks's worst, funniest movies, he played a "stand-up ...

When is a joke not joke? When it's philosophy. Actually, when is philosophy not a joke? When it is a joke. That's more to the point. Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein have found a way to make the study ...

In this small, witty, and delightful essay, the writer Jim Holt reflects on what our capacity for joking really tells us about the human condition. It may initially surprise readers to find jokes ...

Diogenes of Sinope, a beggar who lived on the streets of Athens in the fourth century B.C.E., has been hailed as the progenitor of performance art, an inspiration for the Occupy movement, and, by the ...